Modifying a Shipping Container into a Sea Can Garage or Workshop - Roll Shutter Door Installation
Installing a garage door on a sea container is made easy as Channing McCorriston, The Container Guy, explains the process.
This video focuses on installing a roller shutter in place of the double swing doors, but as long as you have a framing kit that the roll shutter sits against, you can install it anywhere on a steel box.
A roll shutter door is great if you’re wanting to replace the swing-out doors of the container for easy access but you don’t want to lose any interior room of the structure.
You can use this container building as a workshop, storage unit, or anything you need it to be. Roll Up Shutter Doors are also great for modifying your sea can into a garage.
Although a 20’ shipping container won’t be able to store regular sized cars, you can convert it into a garage for motorcycles, quads, or ski-doos/sea-doos.
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YouTube Video Transcript
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Hi, I'm Channing McCorriston, The Container Guy.
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In this video, we're going to show you how to install an aluminum insulated roll shutter door
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in the door end of a shipping container. Stay tuned.
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In this container, we've already removed the container doors and installed a framing kit.
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So these roll shutter doors, they require a framing kit.
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You can't just buy them and install them on the corrugations and expect them to work.
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You need a framing kit to structurally reinforce the container back to its original integrity
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and then install this kit.
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And when you do that, you need to make sure that nothing's in the way of where this kit's
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going to install in terms of rivets, screws, or bulky welds.
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For this specific framing kit, the footer basically extends the footer in the container
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doorway and continues that angle.
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The side pieces, they self-tapping screw into the hollow section of the corner post.
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And then the header itself, it has its own little rain drip that runs the water away from the container.
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And the self-tapping screws, we need to make sure that we install them way up high out
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of the way of the roll of this roll shutter door.
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So these kits are uh pretty cool.
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They only come with three parts really, the two side frames and the header roll.
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That comes fully pretensioned, everything ready to go.
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So basically, you just slide your two side pieces in, hold this door up, screw it on, and it's operational.
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The only other thing is just a set of keys that comes with it.
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Very simple to install and simple to use, they seem to work great.
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You see a lot of them where, like, say there's a jewelry shop with a full glass storefront.
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They'll install these roll shutter doors to protect the glass at night when they're closed so.
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They're, yeah, they're real durable door.
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I will show you what the guts of it looks like shortly here once we get to installing it.
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And this header case for the roll here, it's 10 inches tall, so your header for your container
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-- no rivets, no self tappers, nothing in the way for the first 10 inches of that header
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on the outside of the can to make sure that this sits nice and flush right up against
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the header that you install in the container.
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You can't just install this right up against the corrugations because water will get in
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behind them and into your container.
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So the doors come pre-wound.
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You see there, so it wants to coil back around the the coil in the header there.
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So it does have these stops, which stops it from doing that.
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So when you remove this header, just be conscious of what you're doing.
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You can actually, if you need it to increase or decrease tension, you can -- the way you
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do that is, you actually just uh move the the coil around and around and that will either
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tension the spring that's inside of it or release the tension so.
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But they are all set at factory, and they've typically done them right.
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The only way that you need to do that is if you're adding, like, an extra door seal, which
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added resistance to the the door as it was going either down or up.
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So your side frames here are three inches wide, and you'll want to make sure that your
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frames for the doorway in the container have at least three inches of unobstructed, smooth
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surface all on the same plane as the header for this thing to install.
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These side frames are an extruded aluminum, so they got this rubber seal here.
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And then on the front side, they'll have pre-drilled a larger hole, and then the back side is the smaller hole.
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And you'll want to make sure that you have the larger hole facing outwards because that's
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what your screw head goes through, and then it will self-tap into the frame through this hole.
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So when you slot in the side frames to the the receiver portion of the header, make sure
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that the door gets started in the track.
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And do the same thing on the other side.
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So I've got some help here, it's kind of a two-man job to stand this door and screw it in.
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Once you got your side frames connected to the header, make sure that they're sitting
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up against the framing kit on the container, and so you can just use the leverage and just
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lift this thing up in place!